ROARING TWENTIES

In case you missed it, junior Courtney Hurt torched Drexel for 23 points and 20 rebounds yesterday in a 69-65 win. Just a couple of quick notes on that outstanding performance. No. 1, it’s the first 20-20 game by a Ram since Quanitra Hollingsworth had 24 points an 21 rebounds against William & Mary on Feb. 12, 2006. No. 2, Hurt literally had 20 of VCU’s 29 rebounds.

The crazy thing is, that’s not even the nuttiest rebounding stat from the CAA last week. That honor goes to the Towson men’s team, which is still winless (0-11) in CAA play. You’ll see why in a second. In its 80-57 loss to Old Dominion last week, Towson grabbed 12 rebounds THE ENTIRE GAME. The (toothless) Tigers were outrebounded 33-12. Ouch.

BRACKETBUSTERS ANNOUNCEMENT
ESPN will announce its annual BracketBusters games tonight at 6 p.m. on ESPNU. If I’ve learned one thing about BracketBusters matchups, it’s that you can’t predict BracketBusters matchups. Like, ESPN floats some nonsense about RPI and then picks whatever games they want anyway. So, I have no idea who the Rams will play.

What I can tell you is that VCU is a shoo-in for a television game on one of the network’s stations, likely ESPN2/ESPNU.